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“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” star Jena Malone has revealed the film saved her acting career because she was close to quitting Hollywood after action movie “Sucker Punch” flopped in 2011. The …

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“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” star Jena Malone has revealed the film saved her acting career because she was close to quitting Hollywood after action movie “Sucker Punch” flopped in 2011.

The actress had hoped the Zack Snyder film would be a big hit and when it got critically savaged, she started considering a new line of work.

She says, “I was so over the game and (I was) going to quit acting.”

Malone turned to her photography hobby and her band Shoe as she waited for an acting lifeline, and then it came when she was offered a role in hit TV mini-series “Hatfield & McCoys.” That led to a leading role in the “Hunger Games” sequel, and now the actress wants to play Johanna Mason forever.

She tells Entertainment Weekly magazine, “I love this character. I would play her in an after-school special.”

The “Donnie Darko” actress stars alongside Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth in the action sequel, which has already proved to be a box office smash, but she had an embarrassing run-in during filming.

Malone was left red-faced when she accidentally showed all to a hotel employee while shooting a nude scene in a hotel elevator.

She tells “Live! with Kelly & Michael,” “We were actually shooting in a real hotel, and a real elevator, so they couldn’t really shut down the entire hotel. It’s like 49 floors, a glass elevator; everybody can see in – it’s kind of a crazy thing.

“I think at take two, I’m bare-boned, and I’m about to leave the elevator. And the doors open and there’s some guy that works at the hotel carrying a coffee cup holder and this mouth is just agape. And I’m staring at him trying to be in character, and I just fall out of frame laughing. I couldn’t take it.”